Liz mastering the russian female pose

Tran-Siberian Part 1 – St. Petersburg to Lake Baikal

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July 3rd 2010
Written by Luke on day 3 of a 4 day train journey. I don’t think I have gone crazy yet but am getting close! Liz is sleeping. I have just seen a goat. St Petersburg After leaving Helsinki it was only a couple of hours to the Russian border. All the border formalities were carried out on the train by some very stern men with big guns. We smiled nicely at them and this combined with th ... read more

Europe » Russia

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more